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The Wall Street Journal reviewed the 1,798 that were viewable on Major League Baseball’s website with an angle that clearly showed whether the runner broke before or after the pitcher started his throw.

Coco has had such an interesting career. He has turned out to be a good and reliable player but in a fashion very different from what he looked like as a 25 year old guy with 31 homers over two seasons.

This is fascinating that there's such a discrepancy between teams. If they could combine their off-the-charts level of base-stealing when the pitcher is standing around wasting time, with a good level of the normal type of base-stealing, they'd really have something.

The league average AL team would have 57 SB and 20 CS. The A's have 51 SB and 20 CS. Much ado about...

Bummer for the intern who poured through the footage.

I'm not sure how this adds up to nothing. The A's by getting great jumps are stealing bases and this stealing runs. If they weren't getting great jumps they wouldn't have as many stolen bases. Seems like something to me.

#11 - They have stolen fewer bases and at a lower percentage than the average team. Looks like they surprised a few folks in April and have given it back and more since then. There's no 'stolen runs' to be found.

#11 - They have stolen fewer bases and at a lower percentage than the average team. Looks like they surprised a few folks in April and have given it back and more since then. There's no 'stolen runs' to be found.

It actually doesn't mean that. They might have below average SB ability that has been raised to average via this trick.

Is there any control for the countermeasure -- steal attempts that never happened because the pitcher was able to adjust into a pickoff instead? The more aggressive you are at jumping early, the more pickoffs you'll suffer.

TFA mentions the break-even point as being 75%. I thought it was 67%... What happened? I assume in a lower run-scoring environment the value of any given baserunner is higher, so it's a bigger penalty for that baserunner to be caught stealing.

I'm not asking if the break-even should be higher; I'm asking if it should be that much higher. Has anyone else seen this estimate before?